Romney’s Running Mate? BILL CLINTON
May 9, 2012
Bill Clinton: Helpful To Mitt Romney
Until Mitt Romney desires to reveal his Vice-Presidential nominee, it appears he will be running with Bill Clinton!
Romney strategists are flying high as this week’s Gallup polling shows Romney actually ahead of the President by five points, 49% to 44%. To drive the stake deeper into the heart of the Obama campaign, Mitt Romney is out on the stump invoking the name and the policies of former President Bill Clinton…drawing a painful contrast with the economic failures of Barack Obama. The best thing about it? It’s the TRUTH. Clinton campaigned in the middle, and promised economic reforms and conservative policies. (This all the while being personally irresponsible…) But the contrast between Clinton and Obama is DEAFENING. Politico shares some of Mitt’s tactical words and the strategy:
“In seeking to drive a wedge between centrist and liberal Democrats, Romney spoke here on Tuesday in glowing terms of the Clinton era’s balanced budgets and rosy economy.
Obama Has To Run From His Record In Battle With Mitt Romney
“President Obama chose to apply liberal ideas of the past to a 21st century America,” Romney said. “Liberal policies didn’t work back then, they haven’t worked during these last four years, and they will not work in the future. New Democrats had abandoned those policies, but President Obama resurrected them with the predictable results.”
Romney continued: “President Clinton, remember, he said the era of big government was over. President Obama brought it back with a vengeance. Government at all levels now consumes about 38 percent of the economy, and if Obamacare is installed, that will rise to about half of the economy.”
Furthermore, Romney sought to paint Obama as a welfare president. It was not a far cry from ex-presidential rival Newt Gingrich dubbing Obama a “food stamp president,” and the former House speaker’s work with Clinton to balance the budget in the ’90s also resonated during Romney’s speech.
“President Clinton made efforts to reform welfare as we know it,” Romney said. “But President Obama is trying tirelessly to expand the welfare state, with more promises of more programs, more benefits, more spending
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76056.html#ixzz1uO3WTEAi
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